Scene Stealer Quotes

My definition of a character actor is - they never get the girl.

Gary Oldman is impossible to steal a movie from. He's such a great actor, he's off the hook. I love him.

I'm not a leading man. I'm a character actor. That's what I want to be.

There are a lot of comedic actors who are just out to be the funny one and get all the laughs and they'll sacrifice your joke, the scene, the story just to be the star. All they want is attention and to be number one. You can spot those guys from a mile away and they're the worst.

People say: 'Why do you want to play the straight man?' Well, it's because he gets to be in every scene.

Sometimes the best parts are the leading men. But the little parts can be similarly gratifying.

I always thought of myself as a character actor. I never thought of myself as a leading man.

I was always a character actor, basically, that sometimes looks like a leading man.

I've just kind of been used to carrying movies. I look back and I'm just used to being in every single scene in a lot of pictures.

It's the fun part 'cause you don't have any of the real heavy-lifting to do. You just come in and shout and chew scenery, and just be awful and say a few jokes, and you don't have to carry the romantic storyline or the quest part of the story. You just pop up, every now and again.

She is such a scene-stealer. She's got these lashes and big eyes, and when she walks on to the set everybody just says "ooh."

My character is such an entertaining character that it is a whole other element to the show, so once they put me and Carmella together it was like, okay, now I have something to do.

It's the best part of the whole movie. John Malkovich with a pink pig is - you can't get better than that. Then John Malkovich alone and then you add a pink pig.

Most of the time when you see a movie, the best character in the movie is not "the guy," it's the guy next to the guy.

I liked the scenes with the baby, but the baby steals all the scenes that you're in. So that would get old after a while, because the baby is too perfect. I liked being high on ecstasy.

Chris O'Dowd is a very special talent. He's one of those very, very rare actors who can be the clown, or he can be the straight man playing off the clown, in a scene.

The divinely talented Adam Arkin. So underrated. Every time I do a piece and they go, 'You know, you need a husband in this,' I ask, 'Can Adam Arkin do it?'